Wayne Chirnside wrote in a message to Roy J. Tellason:

RJT> The hard drives that are out there right now sure are attractive,
RJT> there's definitely something about the thought of having some tens of
RJT> gigs of space available to me that sorta grabs my attention.  And I
RJT> *could* go out and snag one of those,  or something similar.  But at

WC>  Once I get the Pentium up it's two USB ports and from what   I'm
WC> hearing they're available cheaper than other types.

Huh?  USB hard drives?  No,  I definitely _don't_ wanna go there!

RJT> this point I think I'm inclined to get a scanner and a cd burner first,
RJT>  and to make better use of what technology I have on hand here.  Got

WC> Scanner would be nice but I've no pressing need. By the time I get 
WC> around to a CD burner DVD burners may be affordable?

Maybe.

RJT> MBs sitting around and I could upgrade some of what I'm running,  like
RJT> this box ferinstance,  by just taking the time to shut it down and tear
RJT> it apart,  stick a different MB in there.  And stuff like working on
RJT> configs,  getting things working better together than they are now...

RJT> It's really pretty funny,  too.  There was a time when I'd jump at the
RJT> chance to get a "new" (usually much faster) system or
take a big jump
RJT> in drive space, or things like that.  

WC>  Was a time any hardware tweak got my immediate attention too.  Now
WC> it seems I'm content to lag behind and wait until it's imperitive
WC> in order to effectively operate.

That too.

WC>  Looking forward that 56K software modem with Linux driver too!  

RJT> at this point I'm content to hold off on that stuff a bit.  My one 
RJT> foray a couple of months back to look at what was out there in 
RJT> terms of new MBs and such convinced me that I wasn't ready to jump 
RJT> into that stuff just yet.

WC> You'd be more prepared if you were online, read reviews at Tom's 
WC> Hardware site, www.motherboards.org and download and read the 
WC> manuals for the new boards.

Maybe.  I don't know how much time I'd have for that stuff,  don't have
that much time _now_ for the stuff I want to deal with.  And reviews and
such are all well and good,  but they may or may not have anything to do
with what's out there when I'm ready to buy.  Although they might be
effective in terms of letting me know what stuff I want to stay away from.

WC> They appear intimidating at first however once you've read the 
WC> manual all the strange terminology becomes apparent and in fact is 
WC> much simpler than what we're used to.

Strange terminology?  Like what?



RJT> If nothing else there's always the car wash...  :-)

WC> No way I'd treat my Pit Bull that way.

I wasn't serious...



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